Determining the Dimensions of The Need and The SupplyWith a severe shortage of both appropriate housing, accessible
and comprehensive mental health services, residential substance
abuse recovery programs, case management, and other key services,
there must be a plan that with the utmost integrity and business-like
approach, identifies the needs and lays out a business-like strategy
for addressing each need including the costs of these services.
Such a plan should address the following:

a.

how many of our 6956 homeless men and women need these essential
services

b.

the present supply of each of these services

c.

the number of people (including all those who will during
the 10 years who will become homeless) who will need these
services such as housing, mental health treatment, residential
substance abuse recovery programs, etc.

d.

a realistic projection of the extent to which the needs can
be met and by when

e.

the cost of providing these services to all those who need
them

f.

the estimate of how many of those in need of these services
can be realistically provided with each of these services that
will end their homelessness in the 10 year period

g.

a 10 year timetable with yearly accounting of how many people
have been provided the services needed to end their homelessness